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Ellen Cassedy

Ellen Cassedy, the trans­la­tor of On the Land­ing: Sto­ries by Yen­ta Mash (2018), received a PEN/​Heim trans­la­tion grant and a Hadas­sah Bran­deis Insti­tute fel­low­ship for her work on Mash. She was the co-trans­la­tor, with Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub, of Oedi­pus in Brook­lyn and Oth­er Sto­ries by Blume Lem­pel (2016), award­ed the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter Trans­la­tion Prize. She is the author of We Are Here: Mem­o­ries of the Lithuan­ian Holo­caust (2012), which won sev­er­al nation­al awards and was short­list­ed for the William Saroy­an Inter­na­tion­al Prize for Writing.
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Essay

Find­ing a Portable Home­land in Yiddish

Ellen Cassedy
September 28, 2018
Essay

“Her Green Days”: Nature in the Yid­dish Narrative

Ear­li­er this week Ellen Cassedy and Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub wrote about their dis­cov­ery of the Ele­na Fer­rante of Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture and her trans­gres­sive fic­tion…
Ellen Cassedy
December 16, 2016
Essay

Hid­ing in Plain Sight: A Pri­vate Yet Can­did Yid­dish Writer

Ear­li­er this week Ellen Cassedy and Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub wrote about their dis­cov­ery of Blume Lempel’s trans­gres­sive Yid­dish fic­tion, now trans­lat­ed into Eng­lish as…
Ellen Cassedy, Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub
December 14, 2016
Essay

Oedi­pus — in Brook­lyn? And in Yiddish?

Ellen Cassedy and Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub received the Yid­dish Book Center’s 2012 Trans­la­tion Prize for their work on the fic­tion of Blume Lem­pel, now com­piled into the book…
Ellen Cassedy
December 12, 2016
Fic­tion
On the Land­ing: Sto­ries by Yen­ta Mash
Yenta Mash; Ellen Cassedy, trans.
Fic­tion
Oedi­pus in Brook­lyn and Oth­er Stories
Blume Lempel; Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, trans.
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We Are Here: Mem­o­ries of the Lithuan­ian Holocaust
Ellen Cassedy

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